Oct. 16, 2010
Marshall Professor Jean Edward Smith Wins Literary Merit Award
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Jean Edward Smith, the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University, is the recipient of the 2010 Literary Merit Award of the West Virginia Library Association.
Professor Smith received the award at the library association’s awards banquet at the Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, W.Va.
Professor Smith is the author of 12 books, including most recently, FDR, winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. In addition to FDR, Smith has written John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, Grant (2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist), and Lucius D. Clay: An American Life.
Columnist George Will recently called Smith, “Today’s foremost biographer of formidable figures in American history.”
Professor Smith, born in Washington, DC in 1932, has been at Marshall University for 12 years, following a 35-year career at the University of Toronto. A disciplined writer, Professor Smith comes to the office seven days a week, writes in longhand, and does not use a computer or e-mail.
His present project is a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower that will be published by Random House in 2011.
“I told my wife we would have to go to Abilene, Kansas, to the Eisenhower Library for six months,” Smith said. “My wife asked me why couldn’t I write a biography of Charles De Gaulle?”
Smith may be reached by calling 304-696-4015.
Editor's Note: For David M. Kinchen's May 2007 review of Smith's biography of FDR on HNN, click: http://archives.huntingtonnews.net/columns/070515-kinchen-review.html
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Marshall Professor Jean Edward Smith Wins Literary Merit Award
Special to Huntingtonnews.net
Huntington, WV (HNN) – Jean Edward Smith, the John Marshall Professor of Political Science at Marshall University, is the recipient of the 2010 Literary Merit Award of the West Virginia Library Association.
Professor Smith received the award at the library association’s awards banquet at the Stonewall Resort in Roanoke, W.Va.
Professor Smith is the author of 12 books, including most recently, FDR, winner of the 2008 Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians. In addition to FDR, Smith has written John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, Grant (2003 Pulitzer Prize finalist), and Lucius D. Clay: An American Life.
Columnist George Will recently called Smith, “Today’s foremost biographer of formidable figures in American history.”
Professor Smith, born in Washington, DC in 1932, has been at Marshall University for 12 years, following a 35-year career at the University of Toronto. A disciplined writer, Professor Smith comes to the office seven days a week, writes in longhand, and does not use a computer or e-mail.
His present project is a biography of Dwight D. Eisenhower that will be published by Random House in 2011.
“I told my wife we would have to go to Abilene, Kansas, to the Eisenhower Library for six months,” Smith said. “My wife asked me why couldn’t I write a biography of Charles De Gaulle?”
Smith may be reached by calling 304-696-4015.
Editor's Note: For David M. Kinchen's May 2007 review of Smith's biography of FDR on HNN, click: http://archives.huntingtonnews.net/columns/070515-kinchen-review.html
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